As most of you are probably aware, the holiday Thanksgiving is a purely American idea. So around October when leaves started to fall I, along with the rest of my peers, began to wonder what NYU would do to compensate for Thanksgiving during our stay in France. None of us were entirely delighted when we were told that we actually had classes all day on Thanksgiving. So why was it that on November 26th every student and teacher at NYU was in a cheerful and thankful mood even though we were in school? We were waiting for 9 pm that night when we would all make the trek up the Eiffel Tower to eat a Thanksgiving dinner of epic proportions in one of the Eiffel's two restaurants, 58.
Yep stole this picture from their Website.
As we raced (last minute of course) down the steps of the Trocadero in the pouring rain, we were lucky enough to see the tower light up in a spectacular manner, in honor of the 120th anniversary of it's construction.
Excuse the poor camera work, I was after all running on cobble stones in the rain.
The restaurant was chaos of course as over 200 NYU students and faculty crammed themselves onto the entire second floor of the restaurant and eagerly awaited our Thanksgiving feast. I'm not entirely sure what we expected, but it was certainly not your usual Thanksgiving dinner. Oh there was turkey, and some form of mashed potatoes, but the pumpkin soup and the strange cranberries on a pancake, while delicious, were not something you expect to see on your plate at Thanksgiving. I think the consensus for the most delicious part of the meal was the pumpkin "tart" they served at the end. It tasted exactly like pumpkin pie but it was much more beautiful.
Everyone was in good spirits, the food was delicious, and the wine was flowing freely. So while it may not have been the most traditional Thanksgiving ever, it was certainly one no one in attendance is likely to forget too soon.
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